All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 16 2010 // A federal jury in New Jersey has found a California man guilty of selling bogus liability insurance policies.The jury returned its verdict against 62-year-old Ronald Allen of North Hollywood, Calif., following a seven-day...
Dec 13 2010 // Pet owners who witness their animals being killed by another creature cannot seek damages for emotional distress, a New Jersey appellate court has ruled.The decision issued Friday came in the case of a woman whose small...
Dec 10 2010 // The government has added more charges in the bribery case against a former New Jersey school superintendent and an insurance broker.In a superseding indictment announced this week, Michael Ritacco and Francis Gartland face...
Dec 9 2010 // Some New Jerseyans might have to pay if they need the fire department or an ambulance.Salem’s City Council has adopted an ordinance that would allow the fire department to charge to recover costs. The council says...
Dec 5 2010 // A new report shows a drop in deaths from motorcycle accidents in New Jersey – a change that’s good news for both riders and safety advocates.Overall, 68 people died in motorcycle crashes across the Garden State...
Nov 24 2010 // A new report shows a drop in deaths from motorcycle accidents in New Jersey — a change that’s good news for both riders and safety advocates.“I think it’s great,” Barbara Borowiec, a South...
Nov 23 2010 // New York-based insurance broker USI Holdings has acquired the New Jersey operation of Kinloch Holdings Inc.The unit, based in West Orange, New Jersey, specializes in commercial property casualty and employee benefits...
Nov 17 2010 // New Jersey’s largest auto insurer is issuing dividend checks averaging $107 to its policyholders.New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company began issuing the checks on Monday. The Ewing-based company says the checks...
Nov 16 2010 // Monitor Liability Managers, LLC (Monitor) has introduced a new lawyers professional liability (LPL) insurance program in New Jersey. The LPL program provides liability protection for law firms [headquartered in New Jersey]...
Nov 16 2010 // General Star has expanded its architects and engineers professional liability program on an admitted basis to New York and New Jersey. This new feature is part of General Star’s nationwide A & E program, launched...
Nov 15 2010 // Public Service Electric & Gas will pay $450,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man killed in a 2008 house explosion.Sixty-six-year-old Richard Haas, who lived alone in the three-story...
Nov 12 2010 // The former superintendent of New Jersey’s fourth-largest school district has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges.Michael Ritacco entered his plea Wednesday during a brief hearing in U.S. District Court in...
Nov 4 2010 // The former chairman of the New Jersey Assembly’s insurance committee has been sentenced to five years in prison for distributing child pornography.Former Assemblyman Neil M. Cohen, of Paramus, has also been barred...
Oct 25 2010 // The superintendent of New Jersey’s fourth-largest school district surrendered to the FBI on Thursday and was charged with fraud and bribery over an alleged insurance-kickback scheme that federal officials called...
Oct 25 2010 // New Jersey drivers are now required to remove ice and snow from their vehicles under a new law that has gone into effect. The law, passed last October, authorizes fines and citations for drivers who fail to clean off their...
Oct 22 2010 // A deer crashed through a window at a New Jersey veterinarian’s office.Staff, clients and pets escaped without injury when the buck came through Family Pet Hospital in Mount Olive Township Tuesday. Dr. Sue Bliesath...
Oct 18 2010 // A former partner in a New Jersey insurance brokerage firm has admitted stealing more than $20 million in a fraudulent loan scheme. Forty-eight-year-old Gavin Gatta of Wayside pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark...
Oct 15 2010 // New Jersey prosecutors say a woman who is currently serving a five-year sentence for insurance fraud and identity theft has been indicted in a separate insurance fraud scheme to steal over $8,000 from Liberty Mutual.Dalynn...
Oct 14 2010 // New Jersey State Police say a farm machine struck overhead power lines and caught fire, killing two workers and injuring a third.Sgt. Julian Castellanos says a chute on a combine the men were operating snagged high-tension...
Oct 6 2010 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in Florida earned an average return on surplus of 6.6 percent in 2009, their sixth straight profitable year, although their profits were lower than in 2008.That’s one of the news...